Festival food
Made for a festival or a public holiday.
Gnocchi
🇮🇹 Italy and 5 moreSoft dumplings of dough, often made with potato, flour and egg
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Pierogi
🇵🇱 Poland and 6 moreDumplings of unleavened dough filled with savory or sweet mixtures
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
MantiMeat
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan and 5 moreSpiced meat dumplings wrapped in thin dough, steamed, boiled or baked
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
DangoVegan団子
🇯🇵 JapanJapanese sweet dumplings made from rice flour, often served on skewers
Sweet or dessert, Snacks, Tea time
Zongzi粽子
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreSticky rice parcels with sweet or savoury fillings, wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Varenykyвареники
🇺🇦 Ukraine and 1 moreUkrainian dumplings filled with sweet or savoury ingredients
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Jiaozi餃子
🇨🇳 China and 1 moreChinese dumplings with meat or vegetable filling, served boiled, steamed or fried
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
SpätzleSpätzla
🇩🇪 Germany and 5 moreIrregular egg noodles from Swabia, served as a side or main dish
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Dumpling
🇨🇳 China and 5 morePieces of dough, plain or filled, cooked by boiling, steaming or frying
Main dish, Breakfast, Lunch
Tangyuan汤圆 / 湯圓
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreGlutinous rice balls, often filled, served in sweet or savory broth
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
BuuzMeatБууз
🇲🇳 Mongolia and 2 moreMongolian steamed dumplings filled with seasoned meat
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Uszka
🇵🇱 Poland and 2 moreSmall twisted dumplings filled with mushrooms or meat, often served in borscht
Dumpling, Dinner
MaultaschenMeat
🇩🇪 GermanyStuffed pasta squares from Swabia with a savory meat and vegetable filling
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Shumai烧卖 / 燒賣
🇨🇳 China and 5 moreChinese dumplings filled with seasoned meat, often served as dim sum
Dumpling, Breakfast, Lunch
Kreplachקרעפּלעך
🇩🇪 Germany and 1 moreAshkenazi Jewish dumplings filled with meat or potato, often served in soup
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
KozhukattaVegetarianകൊഴുക്കട്ട (Malayalam), கொழுகட்டை (Tamil)
🇮🇳 India and 1 moreSteamed rice flour dumplings filled with sweet coconut and jaggery
Sweet or dessert, Breakfast, Snacks
Kalduny
🇧🇾 Belarus and 3 moreDumplings of soft dough filled with meat, mushrooms, or fruit
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Matzah ball
🇦🇹 Austria and 1 moreAshkenazi Jewish dumplings made from matzah meal, served in soup
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Silesian dumplingsVegetarian
🇵🇱 PolandSoft potato dumplings from Silesia, shaped with a thumbprint for gravy
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Qingtuan青团
🇨🇳 ChinaGreen glutinous rice dumpling filled with sweet or savory paste, eaten at Qingming Festival
Dumpling, Snacks
Cappelletti
🇮🇹 ItalyRing-shaped stuffed pasta from central Italy, often served in broth
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Pasteles
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico and 4 moreBanana leaf-wrapped parcels of seasoned dough with savory fillings, steamed or boiled
Dumpling, Lunch, Dinner
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Buuz: Аркадий Зарубин, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Gnocchi: Amy Aletheia Cahill, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Zongzi: The original uploader was Allentchang at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jiaozi: Bioniclepluslotr, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dango: Maakun, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Uszka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vegalabs, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tangyuan: cherrylet, CC BY 2.0, source
- Varenyky: Deror_avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Shumai: Kent Wang, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Maultaschen: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Manti: Peretz Partensky, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Spätzle: Kobako, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Kalduny: Хомелка, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dumpling: Kobako, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Kozhukatta: Jayashree Govindarajan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cappelletti: Lungoleno, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Qingtuan: 猫猫的日记本, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kreplach: Zlerman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Matzah ball: Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2, source
- Silesian dumplings: Ewkaa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pasteles: The Eloquent Peasant, CC BY-SA 4.0, source